Nintendo unveiled its next home entertainment system Tuesday, a combined console and tablet controller that the company hopes will recapture the success of its best-selling Wii. Called the Wii U, the ...

The Wii U isn't even on sale yet, but Nintendo is already working hard to upgrade it. The Japanese company wants to enable multiplayer touchscreen games, so more than one person can play using a ...

The new Wii U console will debut in 2012. It combines motion control with a touchscreen game controller. Nintendo says "it will change the way we play games". Jeff is CNET Editor at Large and a host ...

At the 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo, Nintendo unveiled the Wii U and the new tablet-like controller for the system. Many unknowns still linger about the system's functionality, but one question ...

I love the idea of the Wii U: about the size of an Iomega Zip Drive dipped in glossy black — a trifle bigger than the Wii, but still half that of the competition’s comparably desktop-like boxes; a ...

Nintendo has revealed that it will launch its newest game machine — the Wii U — on Nov. 18. The Japanese gaming giant on Thursday also announced that it will sell the console — which features a tablet ...

Nintendo's Wii U system has struggled to keep up with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It has sold 9.5 million units as of May since its launch in late 2012, in contrast to the PS4's 22.3 million since ...

Sitting down to play ZombiU at Comic-Con, I was basically already sold on the game. Ubisoft has been hitting it out of the park lately; it's been quite a while since they released anything that was ...

The image above shows a slightly redesigned Wii U tablet controller—the previous version (in the second image) sported "analog nubs" like the 3DS, whereas the new controller has legitimate control ...

An image of an updated Nintendo Wii U controller has appeared online. A QA tester for Traveller's Tales Games tweeted an image of a revised Wii U tablet controller, complete with a number of minor ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Overall game console shipments declined over 30% year-over-year through the first half of 2012; although these results do not signal the end of console gaming. The ...

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